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'Portugal has its Arata, or Aroha, containing 32 Lisbon Pounds : Its Faratelle, containing two Lisbon Pounds : Its Rot toli y containing about 12 Pounds. And for Gold, its Chego, containing four Carats. — The fame arc ufed in the 'Portugneze Eaft-Indies.

Italy, and particularly Venice, have their Af'gliaro, con " tain'mg four Mirzcs ; the Mirze containing 30 Venice Pounds :

The Saggio, containing a fixth Part of an Ounce. Genoa

has five Kinds of Weights, viz. Laige Weights, whereby all Merchandizes are weigh'd at theCuftom-houfe: Cajh-Wcights, for Piaftres and other Species : The Cantara, or Quintal, for the coarfeit Commodities : The Large Balance, for raw Silks ; and the Small Balance for the finer Commodities. — Sicily has its Rottolo, 32 and a half Pounds of AleJJina.

Germany, Flanders, Holland, the Hans Towns, S-zveden, 'Denmark, 'Poland, &c. have their Schippondt, which at Antwerp and Hamhurgh is 300 Pounds, at Lubeck 320 ; and at Coningsberg 400 Pounds. — In S-zveden, the Schippondt for Copper is 320 Pounds ; and the Schippondt for Provifions 400 Pounds. At Riga and Revel, the Schippondt is 400 Pounds 5 and at r Dantzic 340 Pounds : In Nor-zvay 300 Pounds ; At Amfterdam 300 ; containing 20 Lyfpondts, each weighing 15 Pounds.

In Mufcovy, they weigh their large Commodities by the ^ercheroB, or Berkewits, containing 400 of their Pounds. — They have alio the 'Poet, or Pode, containing 40 Pounds, or .£_, of the Serchcrocl.

In Turky, at Smima, Sec. they ufe the Batman, or 2?at- temant, containing fix Ocquos $ the Ocquo weighing 3 Pounds % Engliff?. — 'They have another Batman, much lefs, confif- ting as the former of fix Ocquos, but the Ocquo only con- taining 15 Ounces EngliJJy : 44 Ocquos of the firft Kind, make the TurkijI? §>aintah — At Cairo, Alexandretta, A- leppo, and Alexandria, they ufe the Rotte, Rotton, or Rot- toli. The Rotoli at Cairo, and other Parts of Egypt, is T44 Drachms ; being fomewhat over an EnglifJo Pound. — At Aleppo there are three forts of Rottos ^ thefirlt 720 Drachms, making about feven Pounds Evglijlj, and fcrving to weigh Cottons, Galls, and other large Commodities : The fecond is ($24 Drachms, ufed for all Silks but white ones, which are weigh'd by the third Rotte of 700 Drachms. At Seyda the Rotto is 600 Drachms.

The other Ports of the Levant, not named here, ufe fomc of thefe Weights 5 particularly the Occo, or Ocqtia, the Ro- toli and Rotte.

To mew the Proportion of thefe feveral Weights to one another, we mall add a Reduction of the divers Pounds ufed throughout Europe, by which the other Weights are eftimated, to one Standard Pound, viz. the Pound of Am- sterdam, "Paris, and Sonrdeaux ; as calculated with great Accuracy by Monfieur Ricard, and publifh'd in the new Edi- tion of his excellent Traite de Commerce^ in 1722.

Alphabetical Table of the Proportion of the Weights of the chief Cities in Europe, to zhofc of Amfterdam.

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hundred Pounds ai Amfterdam is equal to

An hundred Pounds of 108 Pounds of AU cant. 105 I. of Antwerp. 120/. of ' Arcbangcl,or$Toedes. jos I. of Arftbol. 110 1, of Avignon. 08 I. of Bafil in Switzerland. 100/. of Bayonne in France. 1 66 1, of "Bergamo. 97 /. of "Berg ap Som. 95/. '• of "Bergen in Norway. in /. of Bern. loo /. of Befancon. 100 /. of Bilboa. 105/. of Bois le due. 151/. of Boulogne. 100 /. of Bourdeaux.

104 /. of Bourg en BreJJb. 103 /. of Bremen. 125 A of Breflaw.

105 /. of Bruges. 105/. of Bruffcls. 105 /. of Cadiz. 105/. of Cologne. 125/. of Coningsberg. jot I. and -i of Copenhagen. 87 Rotres of ' Conflantinople. 113 /. and i of Dantzic. 100 /. of 2)ort. ST I. of 'Dublin.

97 /. of Edenburgh. 143 /. of Florence.

98 LofFrancfortjaa thcMaiue. 105 /. of Ghent. j &9 /. of Geneva.

Amfterdam, are equal to I«3 /. of Genoa, Caflj-Wcight. lozl. of Hamburg. 106 1. of Leiden. 105 /. of Leipfic. 105 /. and ~ of Liege, 114/. of Liflc. 116 1, of Lyons, City-Weight. loff I. and ' of Lisbon. 143 /. of Leghorn. 109 1, of London, Averdupois-

Weight. 105 /. of Lovaine.

105 /. of Lubec. 1 4 1 i I. of L ucca, L ight-Weight. 1 14/. of Madrid. 105/. of Malines. 123 /. and } of Marseilles. 1 54 l.of MeJJiiia,Light-Weight. 16% I. of Milan. 120/. of Montpellier. 125 Bercherofts of Mufcovy. loot, of Names.

106 I. of Nancy. 1 6') I. of Naples. 98 /. of Nuremberg. 100 /. of 'Paris. 112/. and ' of Revel. 109 /. of Riga. 100 /. of Rochcl. 1^61. of Rome. 100 /. of Rotterdam. <)6LofRouen,Vicomity-Weight. 100 1, of S. Malo. jool. of S. Sebaftian.

1 58 /. and -!- of Sar ago/a. 106L of Seville. I! 4 '■ of Smima. no/, of Stain. 81 /. of Stockholm.

nil. of Tboloufe and Upper

Languedoc. 1 51 /. of furin. 158/. and of Valencia. 1S2I. oH Venice, Small It- eight.

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Weiohts B/Jrf ;, 2 the feveral Tarts of the Eaft-Indies, China, Perfia, Sic.

The C/-/«/e Weights, are— The <Pic for large Commo- dities ; it is divided into 100 Catis, or Cattis, tho lbme fay into 125 : thoCati into 16 Taels; each Tael equivalent to 1 1- of an Ounce Eiiglijh,ot the Weight of owz\Xa\ and-? T, and containing 10 Mas, or Maffes ; and each Mas 10 Condorius. So that the Chinefe Pic amounts to 137 Pounds Enz. Aver-

dupois, and the Cati to r Pound 8 Ounces. The 'Picol

for Silk, containing 66 Catis and .1 : The Bakar, Bakaire, or Barre, containing 300 Catis.

Tttnamn has all the fame Weights, Meafures, &c, as China.

Japan has only one Weight, viz. the Catti ; which, how- ever, is different from that of China, as containing 20 Taels. — At Surat, Agra, and throughout the States o °the Great M'gul, they ufe the Man, or Mem, whereof they have two Kinds ; the Kings Man, or King's Weight ; and the Man limply : The firit ufed lor the weighing of common Provi- fions, containing 40 Sers, or Serrcs ; and each Ser a juft 'Paris Pound. Tho 'Taverjiier will have the Ser near a Se- venth kls than the -Paris Pound. The common Man,

uled in the weighing of Merchandize, confiils likewile of 40 Scries, but each Serre is only eftimated at 12 Tans Ounces, ot J of the other Ser.

The Man may be look'd on as the common Weight of tl Eaft Indies, tho under fome difference of Name, or rath of Pronunciation; it being call'd Mao at Cambaya, and in other Places Mem.— The Ser is properly the Indian Pound, and of umverfal ufe : The like may be faid of the Babar, 'Tael, and Catti abovemention'd.

The Weights of Siam, are the Pic, containing 2 Schans or Catis ; but the Siamefe Cati is only half the Jai-oncfc, the latter containing 20 Taels and the former only 10 ■ Tho fome make the Chinefe Cati only iff Taels, and the Siamefe 8.— Tho Tael contains 4 Baats or finals ; each about a Paris Ounce : The Baat 4 Sclings, or Mayons : The Mayon 1 Fouangs : The Fouatig 4 Payes : The Paye 2 Clams : The Sompaye, half a Fouang.

Ir is to be obferved, that thefe arc the Names of their Coins, as well as Weights ; Silver and Gold being, there. Commodities, fold, as ether things, by their Weights. See Ccin, i£c.

In the Ifle of Java, and particularly at Bantam, they ufe

the Gantan, which amounts to near 5 Ditch Pounds, ^

In Golconda, at Vifipom- and Goa. they have the Furatelle ; containing 1 Pound 14 Ounces Englijh : The Ma, gabs, or Mangelin, for weighing Diamonds and Precious Stones ; weighing at Goa 5 Grains, at G-Jconda, &c. 5! Grains. — They have alfo the Rotolo, containing 14' Ounces Englljb : The Mciricol, containing the fixth Part of an Ounce : The Val, for Piaftres and Ducats ; containing the 73d Part of a Real.

In Perfia, they ufe two Kinds of Salmans or Mans ; the one called Cahi or Cheray, which is the King's Weight, and the other Batman of fauris, from the Name of one of the chief Cities of Perfia. — Tho firft weighs, according to Taveruier, 13 Pounds 10 Ounces Eughjh ; the fecoud, 6 Pound J. According to Sir J. Chardin, the King's Bat- man is 13 Pounds 14 Ounces', and the Batman of fauris 6 Pounds '. — lis Divifions are, the Ratel, or a iffth ; the Derhcm, or Drachm, which is the 50th ; the Mcfcal, which is half the Derhem ; the Dung, which is the ffth Part of the Mefchal ; being equivalent to ff Carat-Grains; and laftly the Grain, which is the 4th Part of the Dung. — . They have alfo the Vakie, which exceeds, a little, our Ounce : The Sah-cheray, equal to the 1170th Part of the Derhem: And the foman, ufed to weigh out large Payments of Money, without telling : nsWeigbt is that of 50 AbaJJis. See Toman.

African and American Weiohts.

We have little to fay as to the Weights of America : The fevctal European Colonies there, making ufe of the Weights of the States or Kingdoms of Europe they belong to. For as to the Aroue of Peru, which weighs 27 Pounds, 'tis evi- dently no other than the Spanifb Aroba, with a little diffe- rence in the Name.

As to the Weights of Africa ; there are few Places have any, except Egypt and the Coafts of Africa, whole Weights arc enumerated among thofe of the Potts of the Levant &c.

As to the Coafts beyond Cape Verde, viz. Guinea, Congo,

to Soffola, Mofambica, &c. they have no Weights ; only)

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